This Week in Latinx Press Hires
Garcia to The Independent, Cordero to Deadline Hollywood, Jacquez to Bloomberg TV, Guzman to NBC Bay Area
Greetings, colleagues! It’s actually been a pretty good week for Latinx press hires. In fact, 2021 is becoming a pretty good year for Latinx diversity in the news business.
While we haven’t taken over the top jobs yet in the top U.S. newsrooms, Latinx news workers are at least rising as the nation’s top columnists (s/o Jean Guerrero at LAT and Julio Ricardo Varela at Washington Post) and radio press (s/o to the Futuro newsroom for sweeping Oprah’s list of top Latino podcasts in the east … and to the homie Gustavo Arellano for launching his new LAT pod in the West).
Ally Spotlight: Kevin Merida
Kevin Merida’s arrival in Los Angeles as the top editor of the Times should spark a renaissance in Latinx news production that can be a model for newsrooms back east to observe and learn from. LAT is lucky to have Kevin who, in turn, should consider himself fortunate enough to inherit a caucus of outstanding Latinx news talent that’s been finding its voice and discovering its power in the newsroom for over a year before Kevin took over the newsroom’s editorial last month. In short, Merida’s got a lot to work with after a career of steadfast newsroom allyship to marginalized journalists and their stories.
That said, we haven’t seen any Latinx hires announced this week at LAT (though the week’s not over yet!), but here are some bad ass (and diverse) journalists who are moving up this week in the news business —